Hans was born in 1906 in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. He was a graduate from the University of Frankfurt with a Ph. D in theoretical physics in 1928. From May 1930 he was a professor also called a Privatdozent, at the University of Munich in Germany. During World War two, Bethe studied microwave radiation in Radiation Laboratory in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the end of the war he then went to Los Alamos to begin making the first hydrogen bomb along with Edward Teller.
Hans also did theoretical research on molecular and atomic physics and their interactions. In 1947 he predicted the pi meson which is a meson that involves holding the nucleus together and thus producing a high-energy reaction. Also in this year he was the first to explain the Lamb Shift, named after Willis Lamb, and calculated the self energy correction: In 1967 Hans Albrecht Bethe won the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributing the theory of nuclear reactions that involved massive stars about energy productions. Along with this award he received others including the Presidents Medal of Merit, the Enrico Fermi Award, the Max Planck Medal, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Medal.
Germany), and 1906. His father was the physiologist Albrecht Bethe. "Bethe, Hans Albrecht (1906-) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography." ScienceWorld. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2011. <http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/BetheHans.html>.
"Hans Bethe, Powering the Stars, and Nuclear Physics." Office of Scientific and Technical Information, OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2011. <http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/bethe.html>.
"I am not a Philosopher."-Hans Albrecht Bethe
Hans was born in 1906 in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. He was a graduate from the University of Frankfurt with a Ph. D in theoretical physics in 1928. From May 1930 he was a professor also called a Privatdozent, at the University of Munich in Germany. During World War two, Bethe studied microwave radiation in Radiation Laboratory in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the end of the war he then went to Los Alamos to begin making the first hydrogen bomb along with Edward Teller.
Hans also did theoretical research on molecular and atomic physics and their interactions. In 1947 he predicted the pi meson which is a meson that involves holding the nucleus together and thus producing a high-energy reaction. Also in this year he was the first to explain the Lamb Shift, named after Willis Lamb, and calculated the self energy correction:In 1967 Hans Albrecht Bethe won the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributing the theory of nuclear reactions that involved massive stars about energy productions. Along with this award he received others including the Presidents Medal of Merit, the Enrico Fermi Award, the Max Planck Medal, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Medal.